For centuries, Europeans thought that eternal daylight saturated the cosmos. The shift to a dark universe has had a profound psychological impact upon us ...

Vladimir Brljak works at the intersection of literary history, intellectual history, and the history of science. His main current project is When Did Space Turn Dark?, a monograph exploring the shift ...

Skin fossils from a sauropod dinosaur examined with an electron microscope feature structures called melanosomes, which are ...

Whatever you’re tucking into this festive season, chances are you didn’t have to kill it yourself or forage it from the wild. For that, you can thank your ancestors who, starting around 10,000 years ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Scientists were amazed to discover a 507-year-old clam that was already 100 in Shakespeare’s day, but why did it live so long ...

Excavations of a workshop that was buried in Pompeii almost 2000 years ago have given archaeologists unique insights into ...

How a Finnish physicist named Karl Lemström once became obsessed with recreating the aurora borealis from scratch – and may ...

Mean temperatures this year approached 1.5°C above the preindustrial average, making it the second hottest year after 2024 ...

Some of the elements used by living systems are far more abundant in Cassiopeia A than we thought, hinting that some parts of ...

Screen time has been linked to all sorts of problems, from depression and obesity to poor sleep. But how worried should you really be? Jacob Aron sifts through the evidence ...

Helena Saremba is a freelance science writer from Germany. She reports on health, climate and the life sciences, with a ...